Caecal epiploic appendagitis: an unlikely occurrence

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 895-900

  Macari, M ^a   Laks, S ^a   Hajdu, C ^a   Babb, J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BLYTH STILL CASELLA PROCEDURE; CECAL EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; CECUM; CECUM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DESCENDING COLON; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADULT; COLITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TYPHLITIS;

EID: 46749144161     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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